Emma Ka’ilikapuolono Metcalf Beckley Nakuina
Basic Information Emma Kaʻilikapuolono Metcalf Beckley Nakuina (1847 – 1929) was born to a Native Hawaiian noble mother, Chiefess Ka’ilikapuolono, and an elite American sugar planter father, Theophilus Metcalf. She was “neither queen nor a commoner, but somewhere in the middle” (Young, 2017). She is best known as Judge Emma Nakuina, the first female judge…